Junta-led Burkina Faso suspends BBC, Voice of America for two weeks

The British and US broadcasters are the latest international media organisations to be targeted since Captain Ibrahim Traore seized power in the West African country in a September 2022 coup. Burkina's communications authority, the CSC, announced late on Thursday that it had "directed" internet service providers to suspend access to the BBC, VOA and Human Rights Watch from Burkinabe territory for two weeks. It said the decision had been taken because BBC and the VOA had aired and also published...